Trans people have always been part of 2SLGBTQ communities and gay men’s sexual spaces and cultures, but are often invisible in sexual health conversations and HIV work. This affects trans people’s health and wellbeing. The Gay Men’s Sexual Health Alliance (GMSH) and many other HIV-focused organizations are now looking towards intentional trans inclusion and integration in their work.
Our work spans research, resource production, education and training, and popular campaigns.
The GMSH is anchored to two points:
- Capacity building among service providers
- Education within the community
If you’re interested in sexual health for gay men, we’d love to connect. Whether you’re an artist, researcher, writer, or outreach worker, there are many ways to contribute to our work.
We prioritize projects that are high-impact for our community.
That means basing our projects on epidemiological data and other sexual health research and on community input about pressing issues.
It is important for us to involve and engage people with lived experience in all of our work. We encourage anyone who is linked to our communities to reach out, specifically anyone who is:
- gay, bisexual, or queer
- living with HIV
- Black, brown, or racialized
- Indigenous and Two-Spirit
- living with a disability
- trans, genderqueer, non-binary, or gender non-conforming
- living in Ontario outside of Toronto
There are many opportunities (both paid and volunteer) to be involved in our work, including partnerships and contracts.
Learn more about our work.
13 January 2022